After-Dinner Coffee (recto) (c. 1889): Art, History and Details

After-Dinner Coffee (recto) (c. 1889) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Cassatt exhibited prints for the first time in 1880 at the fifth Impressionist exhibition. As the decade progressed, she continued to show her graphic work alongside pastels and paintings. In the spring of 1890, at the Deuxième Exposition de Peintres-Graveurs, she showed a group of drypoints, remarkable in their delicacy and precision, as well as a group of prints made with a combination of aquatint and softground etching that appeared quickly drawn and spontaneous. After-Dinner Coffee is a study for a softground etching with aquatint.

Object facts

• Title: After-Dinner Coffee (recto)
• Date: c. 1889
• Creator attribution: Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
• Culture: America
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: graphite
• Dimensions: Sheet: 20 x 14 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
• Collection: DR - American 19th Century
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2009.137.a

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• Catalogue des dessins, pastels, aquarelles modernes...composant la collection de M.A. Beurdeley (neuvième vente). Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, 1920.
• Vente aux enchères du cabinet d'un amateur parisien: catalogue. Nice: Hall du Savoy, 1942.

View the collection record

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